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Italy: Pisa
Because we were “in the neighbourhood”, I really wanted to have a peek at Pisa. We did Rick Steve’s walk from the train station through the town to the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles), where the Leaning Tower is located. We spent half a day in Pisa and half a day in Lucca. I’ll show [...]
Italy: Cinque Terre
This is a continuation of our trip to France and Italy in April. If you missed my previous posts, you can click here for: Nice, Antibes, Cannes, and Monaco. Next week, I’ll finish up this series with two more posts: Pisa/Lucca and Florence. Cinque Terre is a collection of five villages situated along the Italian [...]
Covent Garden, London
A friend of mine emailed me the other day to ask me about markets in London. While I was typing up my reply, I remembered I had a few photos of Covent Garden that I wanted to share with you. If you’re a My Fair Lady fan, you’ll recognize this building as the one at [...]
V&A museum and unpacking update
This amazing chandelier is a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. Last week, I spent a day at the Victoria and Albert Museum. I specifically went to look at the fashion and costume exhibits because Roxi and I are really into sewing right now. Well, gathering ideas for sewing anyway ;-) While I was there, I had [...]
At the Tate Modern
Sometimes I feel like this: Venus of the Rags by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Edited to add: I forgot to mention that I saw this interesting exhibit–Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. Related posts Wordless Wednesday ~ 52: Well, are you? (London) (8) Wordless Wednesday ~ 51: Train Station Vending Machine (England) (12) Wordless Wednesday ~ 50: [...]
Sunday afternoon picnic, Windsor Great Park
The water levels were a little low, and the grass was looking a bit brown. There was a horse thing going on. The Savill Garden building, looking really different in the full sun. White Bordeaux, salami and prosciutto, brie, sharp English Cheddar, lemon and cilantro hummus, olives with feta, cheese bread, salt and pepper crisps, M&Ms, chocolate [...]
Côte d’Azur: Antibes
I am not sure if it was the amazing weather or the stunning scenery, but we loved Antibes best of all the cities we visited on the French leg of our trip to the Riviera. To us, Antibes was the most “real” feeling–cozy cove beaches, a beautiful coastal walk, and a pretty but not pretentious [...]
Netherlands: Keukenhof (Bulb Garden)
Finally! Finally, I got to see some much anticipated spring blooms in the Keukenhof garden here in the Netherlands. We had planned to visit this garden with Mr. DJ’s parents and some friends from London, but only my father-in-law was lucky enough to make it here before the airports were shut down because of the [...]
Wordless Wednesday ~ 38: By lift or by foot, the view is great (Colline du Chateau in Nice, France)
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Padlocks of Love in Koln, Germany
Remember this bridge? It’s the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge that crosses the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany. Here’s a really cool aerial shot of it. Remember that YouTube video I linked to a couple of days ago showing this bridge destroyed during WWII? Back then it was a railway and street bridge. Anyway, reconstruction of this bridge [...]
